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cs.LG2026

Three-Pronged Spectral Control for Federated Parameter Efficient Fine Tuning

Shiva Raj Pokhrel, Dipsan Bhattarai, Anwar Walid

Federated parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) enables communication-efficient adaptation of large pretrained models on decentralized edge data, but it remains fragile under non-…

cs.LG2026

A Drift Stable Quantum Federated Learning for Intelligent Services

Shanika Iroshi Nanayakkara, Shiva Raj Pokhrel

Quantum federated learning enables distributed clients to train quantum neural networks without sharing local data, making it promising for privacy-aware intelligent services. Inte…

cs.LG2026

HantaWatch: Federated Learning for Hantavirus Genomic Surveillance

Shanika Iroshi Nanayakkara, Shiva Raj Pokhrel

Hantavirus genomic surveillance is limited by the distribution of sequence data, non-IID source heterogeneity, and constrained expert-review capacity. We propose HantaWatch, a fede…

cs.LG2026

In-network Attack Detection with Federated Deep Learning in IoT Networks: Real Implementation and Analysis

Devashish Chaudhary, Sutharshan Rajasegarar, Shiva Raj Pokhrel +2

The rapid expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its integration with backbone networks have heightened the risk of security breaches. Traditional centralized approaches to…

cs.LG2025

Black-Box Auditing of Quantum Model: Lifted Differential Privacy with Quantum Canaries

Baobao Song, Shiva Raj Pokhrel, Athanasios V. Vasilakos +2

Quantum machine learning (QML) promises significant computational advantages, yet models trained on sensitive data risk memorizing individual records, creating serious privacy vuln…

cs.LG2025

Adaptive Aggregation with Two Gains in QFL

S Nanayakkara

Federated learning (FL) deployed over quantum enabled and heterogeneous classical networks faces significant performance degradation due to uneven client quality, stochastic telepo…

cs.LG2025

Modeling Quantum Autoencoder Trainable Kernel for IoT Anomaly Detection

Swathi Chandrasekhar, Shiva Raj Pokhrel, Swati Kumari +1

Escalating cyber threats and the high-dimensional complexity of IoT traffic have outpaced classical anomaly detection methods. While deep learning offers improvements, computationa…

cs.LG2025

Lane-Frame Quantum Multimodal Driving Forecasts for the Trajectory of Autonomous Vehicles

Navneet Singh, Shiva Raj Pokhrel

Trajectory forecasting for autonomous driving must deliver accurate, calibrated multi-modal futures under tight compute and latency constraints. We propose a compact hybrid quantum…

cs.LG2025

New Insights on Unfolding and Fine-tuning Quantum Federated Learning

Shanika Iroshi Nanayakkara, Shiva Raj Pokhrel

Client heterogeneity poses significant challenges to the performance of Quantum Federated Learning (QFL). To overcome these limitations, we propose a new approach leveraging deep u…

cs.LG2025

Communication Efficient Adaptive Model-Driven Quantum Federated Learning

Dev Gurung, Shiva Raj Pokhrel

Training with huge datasets and a large number of participating devices leads to bottlenecks in federated learning (FL). Furthermore, the challenges of heterogeneity between multip…

cs.LG2025

LLM-QFL: Distilling Large Language Model for Quantum Federated Learning

Dev Gurung, Shiva Raj Pokhrel

Inspired by the power of large language models (LLMs), our research adapts them to quantum federated learning (QFL) to boost efficiency and performance. We propose a federated fine…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Modeling Feature Maps for Quantum Machine Learning

Navneet Singh, Shiva Raj Pokhrel

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) offers significant potential for complex tasks like genome sequence classification, but quantum noise on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devi…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

Modeling Quantum Machine Learning for Genomic Data Analysis

Navneet Singh, Shiva Raj Pokhrel

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) continues to evolve, unlocking new opportunities for diverse applications. In this study, we investigate and evaluate the applicability of QML models…

cs.LG2024

An Independent Implementation of Quantum Machine Learning Algorithms in Qiskit for Genomic Data

Navneet Singh, Shiva Raj Pokhrel

In this paper, we explore the power of Quantum Machine Learning as we extend, implement and evaluate algorithms like Quantum Support Vector Classifier (QSVC), Pegasos-QSVC, Variati…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Quantum Federated Learning Experiments in the Cloud with Data Encoding

Shiva Raj Pokhrel, Naman Yash, Jonathan Kua +2

Quantum Federated Learning (QFL) is an emerging concept that aims to unfold federated learning (FL) over quantum networks, enabling collaborative quantum model training along with…

cs.LG2023

Improving Federated Aggregation with Deep Unfolding Networks

Shanika I Nanayakkara, Shiva Raj Pokhrel, Gang Li

The performance of Federated learning (FL) is negatively affected by device differences and statistical characteristics between participating clients. To address this issue, we int…

cs.LG2023★ 9 cited

Decentralized Quantum Federated Learning for Metaverse: Analysis, Design and Implementation

Dev Gurung, Shiva Raj Pokhrel, Gang Li

With the emerging developments of the Metaverse, a virtual world where people can interact, socialize, play, and conduct their business, it has become critical to ensure that the u…